Astronomy is increasingly becoming an online affair. Recent discoveries of interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS and R2 SWAN have ...

In 1988, he and his team were the first in many years to observe the Major Lunar Standstill moon rising between the spires of ...

There are signs deep beneath the Pacific Ocean that an exploding star once sent cosmic rays blasting out towards Earth, and ...

Einstein’s version of dark energy is known as the cosmological constant. It implies a fixed amount of dark energy in each ...

In a time without telescopes, the appearance of a new star in the night sky was a disconcerting event full of meaning. Today, those same historical records, meticulously noted by chroniclers and poets ...

An international team of astronomers has conducted detailed multicolor photometric and spectroscopic observations of SN ...

A companion star may have stripped silicon layers. This provided a new window into stellar death. Astronomers have observed the inner layers of a dying star through a rare type of stellar explosion ...

Astronomers have witnessed a rare “extremely stripped supernova” that exposed the inner silicon layers of a dying star, confirming theories of stellar fusion and offering new insight into how ...

On Sept. 20, 2016, Victor Buso was testing a new camera in his rooftop observatory. Buso, an amateur astronomer from Rosario, Argentina, shot a series of images of spiral galaxy NGC 613, which is ...

This cosmic dance not only makes the system burn with unusual brilliance but also creates a massive gas halo, signaling its turbulent and doomed future. Scientists believe this frenzied interaction ...